What is this, you might well ask?
Who knows? I reply.
No, really, go here for more information and to nominate Newburyport. Actually, that's not very informative. Just ask Ari!
We're planning to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States to make the Internet better and faster. Check out this short video to learn more, or visit http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi
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Thanks, Gillian. To be fair, numerous residents had approached me in recent days (by twitter, facebook, and email) wondering my thoughts. We looped the mayor in at that time, and I spoke to her today when she OK'd me to be the local government liaison.
If you assume that the typical Comcast residential subscriber receives a download rate of 16 to 20 million bits per second, because that runs on copper wires and fiber optic involves different material and technology, a Google rate (if it works) would be up to 1 billion bits per second. That's the nutshell.
I ask you and your readers, if they have Facebook accounts, to sign up via this Facebook page to indicate support.
A grassroots movement is in the works through some residents, and one of the ideas is that residents and others can create videos sharing their lives/community, explaining why fiber would be beneficial, and uploading those videos to Youtube, and then linking to the videos in the nomination form.
All nominations -- via this link -- must be submitted to Google by March 26.
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